With the beginning of 2008, our thoughts inevitably go past year, the various channels of television news reports that suggest we try to take stock on what is most important happened in our country but also abroad.
Topics range from economics, to news and politics, but above all make us go back - especially with wealth - the most dramatic events and the subsequent scenes with them, particularly steeped in gratuitous violence and explicit, in fact often are shown scenes with shots from near in blood, shreds with human horrors of various kinds, all accompanied by the harrowing scenes of grief of the relatives of the victims.
can almost see one of those horror films that so fashionable in our cinemas, but why in the world all those facts that are representations of evil and of a sick society are so much news? Why we are so attracted to the bad news?
The experts tell us that the good or the good news (and there are many) are not audience, not interested.
said that it seemed quite proper and appropriate to do a small survey that I certainly did not claim to exhaust such a vast subject, but he wants to be a simple raid - pass me the term - within a concern for their own evil and sin, that Paul in his 2nd letter to the Thessalonians called "the mystery of iniquity".
But what is sin?
The Church teaches us that sin is the condition, the state of separation from God, by its nature closely linked to evil and wonderfully represented with the biblical image of the serpent in Genesis and the dragon in the text of the Apocalypse. Both images give us an idea of \u200b\u200bsomething very dangerous, certainly to be kept at a distance (CCC 2851). But as
born evil?
Meanwhile, certainly is not from God, the Almighty is in fact only for good. Evil is born in the mists of time, certainly long before man (as the book of Genesis presents him in Eden before the creation of man), its appearance comes from the creation to the time when the Almighty with an act of love created the spiritual creatures similar to him in freedom and therefore able to love or to reject it. According to Revelation
exactly 1 / 3 of the angels commanded by Prince Lucifer rebelled against God, rejecting his love, siding against him and thereby causing a war whose outcome was angelic, angels to rebel, to be precipitated on Earth with all the consequences.
From what Revelation describes it thus appears that over the centuries the Prince of evil has put its authority and its nefarious power on Earth, and it is here that he moved the scene of the final battle, the eternal struggle between the forces of good and evil.
The above is supported by the historical situation in which to humanity at the coming of the Savior. In fact just in the year 27 AD, when Jesus begins his public ministry, going down in the field openly against the government of Darkness (activities described above from the Gospel of Mark) was very dramatic situation of Humanity: The injustice and
the arrogance of the powerful reign supreme;
Roman Empire, even if the bearer of civilization and progress was based on slavery and therefore the exploitation of the weak;
diseases, malformations and the human degradation had never touched such low limits , just think how many times Jesus will intervene to cure, cure diseases of every kind and leave the poor unfortunate victims of diabolical possession;
Rome and the neighboring powers with the exception of the Jews, idolatry practiced in almost all, are often sacrificed to the god of even human lives.
After the death on the cross of the Savior, the Prince of Evil has been defeated and the Government of the darkness is past, so to speak in opposition.
The development of theology under the pressure of the SS, over the centuries Christianity has provided the appropriate weapons, in order to thwart the evil and all its many manifestations. The first
particularly effective tool available to the Church is the sacrament of Baptism. With the baptism
become children of God and brothers of Jesus, so we enter a part of the family of the Lord, or to quote Pope Benedict XVI in a community of friends whose center is Christ.
In Baptism we have also been freed from original sin (as a consequence of our ancestors), but - alas - the baptism will not free us from the inclination to sin (lust), nor the temptation to sin which remains throughout the our lives.
therefore necessary for the proper path to holiness is the prayer that as well to keep alive and fresh communion with God, we also protects against any satanic attacks.
Especially recommended by the Church, but also by the famous Exorcist (Father Gabriele Amorth), just as previously mentioned is the daily prayer of the Rosary.
concluding with his death on the cross the Savior did not only reconciled to the Father, but gave rise to a new course of history for all humanity, the tiny mustard seed became a tree and for the Church and Christianity rising, began a new challenge, a new path over the centuries, all based around larger social and cultural achievements, focused on freedom and justice. I would also add that one of the things that allowed the success, or the primacy of the West over the rest of the world, as Christianity, in fact, were the Christian moral foundations the social and cultural life that have allowed the emergence of capitalism and then the successful transition to democratic politics more and more advanced (The Victory of Reason by Rodney Stark), we should not be in no doubt about it!
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